Medical ventilator bag and mask mount

Abstract

A mount for temporarily securing the elements of a manual life-support system consisting of a ventilator bag and mask for use in health-care facilities which can conveniently and aseptically position such a life-support system, accommodating masks of several different sizes, so that the system is available for use for emergency purposes, can be maintained ideally with connection to a source of oxygen, yet in a manner which diminishes the likelihood of noscomial infection.

1. An emergency life-support system, the combination comprising:
 a ventilator bag having an air outlet tube of a fixed outer diameter and a facemask having an air inlet tube defining an inner diameter and an outer diameter; 
 a mount for said ventilator bag and said facemask comprising a base member, a first cylindrical embossment and a second cylindrical embossment; 
 said first cylindrical embossment defining an inner diameter and an outer diameter and being carried by and projecting outwardly from said base member, said outer diameter of said first embossment being substantially equal to an inner diameter of said inlet tube of an adult size facemask, said inner diameter of said first embossment being substantially equal to an outer diameter of an inlet tube of an infant size facemask; and 
 said second cylindrical embossment carried by and projecting outwardly from said base member in spaced disposition thereon from said first embossment and wherein said second embossment defines an inner diameter substantially equal to said outer diameter of said first embossment. 
 
   
   
     2. An emergency life-support system, the combination comprising:
 a ventilator bag having an air outlet tube of a fixed outer diameter and a facemask having an air inlet tube defining an inner diameter and an outer diameter; 
 a mount for said ventilator bag and said facemask comprising a base member, a first cylindrical embossment and a second cylindrical embossment; 
 said first cylindrical embossment defining an inner diameter and an outer diameter and being carried by and projecting outwardly from said base member, said outer diameter of said first embossment being substantially equal to an inner diameter of said inlet tube of an adult size facemask, said inner diameter of said first embossment being substantially equal to said outer diameter of an inlet tube of said infant size facemask; and 
 said second cylindrical embossment carried by and projecting outwardly from said base member in spaced disposition thereon from said first embossment and wherein said second embossment defines an inner diameter substantially equal to a fixed outer diameter of an air outlet tube of a ventilator bag whereby a ventilator bag can be releasably secured to said second embossment.